Product Innovation. Strategic focus. Identify and evaluate new materials and processes for commercial adaptation:

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3 Product Innovation Identify and evaluate new materials and processes for commercial adaptation: Mechanical/physical properties, weight, cost, environmental, manufacturing, other value added benefits Suppliers/distributors, industry, internal recognition Large Push (government) and increasing pull (industry) for the use of renewable, recyclable, natural, green materials in all industries including composites Agricultural in Manitoba & Canada flax, hemp, wheat, oats etc. Strategic focus

4 Product Innovation Project Scope: Biomaterials supply & value chain Material Distributors Urethane Soy Systems FFI MCI SWM Intl SWM Intl Test Facilities Mat Producers Motive Industry Partners: SWM Intl, MCI, Buhler Industries etc. Strategic focus

5 Product Innovation Natural fibres theoretically have similar specific properties to glass fibres This is not being realised in current biocomposites Many potential reasons for this Natural fibre variability & complexity are significant competing with highly consistent materials (e.g. glass) Progress has been made with success of hybrid panel performance, assessment of biofoams and bioresins DIAP: MCI and Motive projects Future progress requires better understanding of the relationship between fundamental fibre quality (internal & interfacial structure & chemistry) and product performance CRC-ACS,CLS, FibreCITY projects Strategic focus

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8 PI Projects Fibre grading studies conducted to compare properties and to assess their effect on composite laminate performance Fibre diameter, fineness, bundle distribution, shape, density, hollowness, degree of kink and crimp Colour and cleanliness (shive content) Fibre composition: ph, wax content, metal constituents, lignin content, soluble salts, pectin Mechanical properties tensile strength, elongation and stiffness Bacterial and fungal counts Degree of ret Fibre density Dispersive component Moisture content Polarity Fibre grading

9 PI Projects FibreCITY Phase 1 June 1, 2012 March 31, 2013 Deliverables LIMS CIC (Nov 2012) $100K CIC Survey of fibre grading equipment SOA (Nov 2012) $200K CIC o FibreCITY Phase 2: WD/GF2 Predictive models for performance based on fundamental fibre data (Mar 2013) $250K UBC Surface characterization of NF bonding to resin system (Mar 2013) $100K CLS FibreCITY

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11 FibreCITY Projects Fibre Structure, Chemistry and Interfacial Characterisation Projects Canadian Light Source CRC-ACS o o NIR Micro droplet Staff exchange FibreCITY

12 Ultrastructural analysis XRD X-ray diffraction allows structural analysis at the molecular level Microfibril angle determination implicated in fibre strength Cellulose crystallinity fibre deformations (L) FibreCITY SuperNova XRD data (R) Pietak et al. Applied Surface Science Volume 253, Issue 7, 30 January 2007, Pages X-ray Diffraction

13 Modeling Capabilities

14 Ultrastructural analysis Confocal microscopy

15 Topochemistry - nanoscale Investigate micro & nano-structural elements of biofibres at the Canadian Light Source Flax samples IR STXM Canadian Light Source

16 Canadian Light Source Beamlines

17 PI Projects Project partners and roles: North Dakota State University Composite assessment, pullout testing, interlaminar shear testing, fibre treatment Test program complete selected good/poor performance Specimen preparation

18 Interface topochemistry First evidence for covalent bonding (specifically at the C=C region) shows the reaction between the VE resin active site and the biofibre Allows for rational design of biocomposite materials Nano-scale interfacial characterisation

19 Equipment Purpose Source Partner Contribution Chromatography suite HPLC, FPLC, Fibre wet chemistry, fibre Dionex, Agilent, LC/MS - UBC GPC, GC/MS surface chemistry BioRad, HP, Thermo Finnegan, Waters Spectroscopy suite, NMR Fibre chemistry models, Bruker, Analytical NIR models CIC prediction, rapid NDT analysis Spectral Devices, Perkin Elmer Ultrastructural analysis suite: X-ray densitometer, X-ray diffractometer Fibre structure to nano-scale Bruker, Quintek Atomic Force Spectroscopy UBC; Synchrotron soft X-ray analysis - CLS Macro-structural analysis suite: Fibre Quality Analyser, Surface profilometry Fibre morphology, characteristics OpTest UBC, Pulp and Paper Centre Bio-imaging and super-computing Confocal, microscopy Data FPInnovations capacity mining, interpretation, model development Specialist product assessment Fibre quality effects UBC, CIC extrusion, strength testing, electrospinning, CT scanning, ultrasonics etc. assessment / prediction model development Aligned capabilities Interpretation of Phenomics information AAFC, NRC, RRC, RCFFN, GP, UM, UMN FIBRE CITY Phase 2

20 FibreCITY relationships

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